Our People
To email staff in the organisation, email their full name, separated by a full stop, before the @ sign, followed by arvonfoundation.org – for example: charles.dickens@arvonfoundation.org
The Hurst - The John Osborne Arvon Centre
Administrator and Caretaker: Dan Pavitt
Lumb Bank - The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre
Centre Director: Ilona Leighton-Goodall
Assistant Centre Director: Jill Penny
Centre Assistant: Rachel Connor
Administrator: Becky Liddell
Book Keeper: Jean Warburton
Read more about Ilona, Jill, Rachel, Becky and Jean
Moniack Mhor
Centre Director: Rachel Humphries
Programming Director: Cynthia Rogerson
Administrator: Lyndy Batty
Education Worke: Kelsey Morse
Read more about Rachel, Cynthia, Lyndy and Kelsey
Totleigh Barton
Centre Directors: Claire Berliner and Oliver Meek
Administrator: Sue Walker
Centre Assistant: Eliza Squire
Read more about Oliver, Claire, Sue and Eliza
Arvon National
Chief Executive: Ruth Borthwick
Director of Operations: Nick Murza
Head of Learning and Participation: Becky Swain
Communications Manager: George Palmer
Head of Development: Laura Greenfield
Development Officer: Ana Horton
Finance Officer: Nick Kavanagh
Development Administrator: Meg Rumbelow
Communications and Participation Administrator: Emma Feasey
National Administrator: Suzie Jones
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Board of Trustees
Patience Agbabi, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Tony Cohen, Kate Donaghy, Marion Gibbs, Robert Hingley, Sir Andrew Cahn KCMG, David Kelleher, Michael Symmons Roberts, Sophie Rochester, Meriel Schindler, Simon Trewin, Virginia Wedgwood
Chairman
Nigel Pantling
Arvon Founders
John Fairfax and John Moat
Joint Presidents
Sir Robin Chichester-Clark and Terry Hands
Patrons
Simon Armitage, Lord (Melvyn) Bragg, Alan Brownjohn, Lady Caroline Chichester-Clark, Dr David Cohen CBE, Carol Ann Duffy CBE, Jerry Hall, Seamus Heaney, Carol Hughes, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, Professor Sir Andrew Motion, David Pease MBE, Salman Rushdie FRSL, Wole Soyinka FRSL, Pete Townshend
